Questions about SSD's

[pengwynman]

So i came back to multiboxing last week, and seen all this stuff about SSD's. These are new to me and never heard of them before last week, hence ive ordered one and it will come tomorrow .

My question is, the specs where ive bought it from say 1.5million hours MTBF (mean time before fail), does this mean 1.5million hours of writing to them? or 1.5million hours the computer turned on? Having done my math(im bad at it) i worked out that i will be dead before it dies, am i wrong?

My next question is, if i put a OS onto the SSD - would that be good? or would it make it die sooner? if so, how long do you reckon a SSD with a OS on it would last? Programs written to a separate harddrive..

Also im hoping it uses the standard SATA cables?

i'm going to freeze you in carbonite so you'll actually probably need to save up for another one in a few hundred years..

from what i understand, SSD's are awesome for read speeds, not so much for writing (compared to regular HDD's). Most people put their OS and most used apps on an SSD and everything else (including swap file) on another HDD. i'm planning on getting 2x 32GB SDD's set up in raid 0 pretty soon if all goes well :P

yeah, standard SATA II for any newer SSD